Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 214, Decatur, Adams County, 10 September 1931 — Page 1

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Plan Religious Class Religious instruction for the youth of the Zion Reformed Church will be resumed on Saturday at 9 o'dock. All those having completed the first year’s work are asked to I begin the second year work. All | other boys and girls of the church who have reached the age of twelve or about so, are asked to enroll on Saturday. The classes will meet In the social room of the church. TRIAL DATES ’ ARE ANNOUNCED — Criminal Cases Will Be Disposed of During September Term Seveial important criminal cases ! wil be heard during the present | term of Adams circuit court, the | criminal calendar reveals. Judge I Erwn, who instituted a system of clearing the docket as quit kly as possible after cases are filed, continued to make up a busy calendar, for this term. The first criminal case will be! heard Monday, September 29, when j Pearl Houston will l»e tried on a, charge of entering a building with intent to commit a felony. Hogston, I who lives at Marion and is a nep ! hew of Alfred Hogston, state fire marshal was arrested in July following an attempt to rob McConnell and sons concern here. When arraigned Tuesday he asked for more time in which to enter a plea and the request was granted. Hogston now is on parole from the state reformatory, having been! convicted on a charge of burglary at Fort Wayne. Hogston's alleged partner William Dixson, charge*! with a similar ofensq on three separate counts) vyillL_lyfie a healing on Tuesday i September 29. Both young men ary being bel dat the Adams county Jail. Clifton Hart arrested on a liquor law violation charge will be tried Wednesday September Charms Asli, charged with fotgery gieo will! (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) TOWNSHIP TAX RATES GET O.K. County Council Verifies Tentative Road And Interest Funds The county council in session Wednesday affirqied the tentative tax levies for the township road I bonds and interest funds, as prepared by County Auditor Albert I Harlow. The 1932 levies are lower in every J township, the cuts amounting from ! three cents to 25 cents on the hundred dollars. The township road | bond and interest levies go to make up the total tax rates in the townships and other taxing units in the county. The rates, together with those in effect this year follows: Unit 1932 1931 Rate Rate Union 50 .68 Root .35 .48 I Preble .41 .51 [Kirkland .24 .49 I Washington .37 .40 |St. Marys .... .27 .44 l Blue Creek .50 .73 Monroe .45 .60 French .34 .57 Hartford .40 .54 | Wabash 40 .53 I Jefferson .40 .67 | The rate in Washington township will be lowered a cent or two if the Second street improvement is disallowed by the state board of tax i commissioners. Babe Is Still-born Barbara Ann Neireiter, stillborn infant, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Dan Neireiter. 717 Winchester street, at the Adams County Memorial Hospital at 8:30 o'clock this morning. Funeral services will be at 10 otlock Friday morning at tbe home with Rev. M. W. Sunderman, pastor of the Evangelical church officiating and burial will be in the Decatur Cemetery. The infant was the first child in the family. Surviving are the par-j ents. Dan and Mary Noll-Neireiter, the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. ! T. R. Noll of Washington township, and Mr. and Mrs. Marion Neireiter of Hoagland.

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LINDBERGHS IN JAPAN ’ ' - ’ •* ’ A i - . 1 - ’♦ w. .1., >— * Sri 5- * _ F - : I if ML ■Mik V WK Shwf* W** ® I 1 —m Col. ami Mis. Charles A. Lindbergh are shown h re as they arrived at Nemuro, Japan, by launch after leavirk their plane. This photograph was sent across the Pacific by fast steamer and transmitted by wire fr<>m tli<- West Coast. The colonel is in the rear center, with Mrs. Lindbergh on his right

ADAMS COUNTY QUARTET WINS Singers To Compete In State Contest Friday At State Fair Ah Adams county vocal quartet | including Vincent, Leslie and Clyde I Sprunger of Wabash township and ’ Warren Monroe, won di *»ct fair at Indianapolis Wednesday, it was announced today. There were Ti quartets entered in this district and the Adams county| entry was highly praised when a-1 ' wardeil first place. There are nine | | districts in the state. Friday the nine district winners I I will compete for the state title and the winner of the state contest I will be declared state champion and j will broadcast the winning song I over some radio station. The contest is held annually at the state fair at Indianapolis. o Auto Injuries Fatal Muncie, Sept. 10 —'.U.R) Ruth | Doraine Rhea. 6. daughter of Mr. j I and Mrs. William Rhea, died of injuries suffered when she was struck by an auto. EUROPE WILL REDUCE ARMS Differences May Be Settled Soon. Belief of Leaders Washington, Sept. 10. — <U.R) — European governments are in a fair way toward resolving their present differences, a prerequisite to success of thetgeneral arms conference next February at Geneva, accord- j ing to authoritative opinion here. The United States, it is believed, will go into the conference with no definite plan of action, and with little intention of further reduction in its own armaments. The problem, it was said in informed circles, is somewhat different from that which confronted the I London naval conference of 1930.1 Prior to that meeting there had ex-1 isted considerable friction between! Great Britain and the United States over naval armament — friction which had resulted in Ihe collapse of the 1927 conference at Geneva. These differences were ironed out in informal conversations between President Hoover and Prime Minister MacDonald in the summer and autumn of 1929. so that when the conference met it was in a spirit of cooperation. Such a problem, but on a much larger and more diverse scale, confronts the new Geneva conference, which is further complicated by the (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday. September lb, 1931.

Gerhard Schultz Named Senior Class President Gerhard Schultz was elected president of the Senior Class of Decatur high school at an organization I meeting held this morning. Other ' officers elected were Dick Sehug. I vice-president; Dick Townsend, secretary, and Fred Musser, treasurer. I Miss Blanche McCrory, instructor in the commercial department, was I named class sponsor and guardian. Ival Newhard, president of the I Junior Class of 1930 presided over: the meeting. Other classes of the 1 high school will hold similar organ- | iz.ation meetings sometime this ! week. BRITISH TAXES ARE INCREASED Drastic Steps Taken In Effort To Overcome Money Crisis London, Sept. 10. — (U.R) — The i heavily-taxed Britisjj public was' called on by the emergency govern- 1 ; ment today to raise $833,490,1*00 by the sternest sacrifice and economy. i to meent a national crisis. Philip Snowden, chancellor of the exchequer, presented a new’ bud-j get in the House of Commons which raised everyone's taxes sharply, in-1 I c(eased the taxes on beer, gasoline. | tobacco and amusements, reduced salaries and cut the dole to the unemployed. Former Convict Held Indianapolis, Sept. 10. — (U.R) — Cecil Brooks, 31, of Linton, said to have escaped from jail at Sullivan April 1, 1931. where he was serving a burglarly sentence, was held by Indianapolis police today, charged with burglary and grand larceny. Police said Brooks, arrested as he was en route to a pawn shop be had been using as one of two fences in disposing of stolen goods, admitted thefts in 30 Indianapolis residences. ————o Rail President Named St. Louis, Sept. 10 —(U.R) —William H. Williams. New York, chairman of the board of directors of the Wabash railroad, today had been chosen to assume the additional duties of president, according to' announcement made simultaneously here and in New York. Williams succeeds James E. Taussig, whose resignation was announced yesterday. Killed By Own Auto Michigan City, Sept. 10—(U.R)— Otto Pohl, 36, was killed by his own auto here today when it crushed him against a gasoline pump in a filling station. Pohl tried to stop the auto when it started after he had cranked it while in gear.

ROAD BONDS ARE REJECTED State Tax Board Disallows Reusser And Hocker Improvements The state board of tax commissioners has disapproved the issuing jof bonds for the improvement of the Reusser road in the town of Berne and for the Hocker road in Washington and Monroe townships. Formal notice of the board’s action was received today by County j Auditor Albert Harlow. The pro I posed bond issue on the Reusser j road was $ 14,9 ml and on the Hock ler it was $25,000. Petitioners had asked that the i Hocker road .wlii h passes through Monroe and wes t to State road No. 27 be made a hard surface road. A tarvia or “Black top" wearing surj face was asked for the Reusser ■ road. The state board in rejecting the I two bond issues made the follow- • ing order: “The board having reI viewed all the facts now finds in favor of the objectors to this bond issue and that the objections are good, sufficient and the bond issue (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN, SERUM RUSHED TO ILL WOMAN Chicago Woman. Suffering Strange Ailment Is Improved Chicago, Sept. 10 (U.R) A wan, disease-sallowed mother smiled a challenge today to death, forestall ed by a rare serum rushed here by airplane from Buffalo. N. Y. Physicians had said Mrs. Andrew Nelson could not live unless a supply of cortin, a gland extract, could be found to withstay the ravages of Addison's disease. Mrs Nelson, herself had abandoned hope. Her husband and six children were heartsick. In answer to a nation-wide appeal. Dr. Frederick A. Hartman of Buffalo yesterday dispatched 200 cubic centimeters of the extract by airplane. One plane soared to Cleveland with the precious cargo. ■ It was taken across the city in a speeding police car with a United Press representative guarding it. A Chicago-bound Nat transport plane relayed it to Municipal field here. At 80 miles an hour, a police car fibre the serum, guarded by another United Press representative, to the Billings Memorial hospital of the University of Chicago. Dr. Richard Torpin administered the life-giving compound last (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN)

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COMMISSION I DEFIES LESLIE; j BUYS TRUCKS State Highway Group Buys 120 Trucks After Saying “No” LESLIE WILL ( ALL MEMBERS Indianapolis, Sept. 10.—-<U.R) — Governor Harry G. Leslie ! planned to confer today with i members of the state highway! 'commission, who late yesterday announced unexpectedly I that they had purchased 120 i (rucks for $159,295.41. “It was my impression,” the Governor said, “that the com-1 mission planned to purchase only ’enough trucks to replace inadequate ! equipment.” He said he was unaware that they intended to buy 1120 trucks. When the commission received bids and consulted with truck representatives in anticipation of the i purchase last week, Governor Leslie was understood to have effectu- ! ally blocked the purchased. A highway maintenance program was subl stituted. . I The Indiana Truck Corporation, , ] Marion, was given an order for 40 , trui ks, representing the largest single expenditure. An order was I given for 50 Dodge trucks; but for a smaller expenditure. The Indiana Corporation was .(criticized by other bidders, who I! pointed out that Samuel J. Farrell, I! Hartford City, a representative of ! the corporation, was a member of the state budget committee. ; Os tile trucks purchased from the Indiana corporation, 28 were of .three and one-half ton capacity, costing $78,745.59, and 12 were one I and one-half ton capacity, costing - j $11,784.96. ;! The 50 Dodge trucks were purf i chased from the Victor E. Watkins f! Company, Muncie, for $45,600. i I Sixe one and one-half ton trucks | (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) ASKS APPROVAL OF TAX BOARD 'I Auditor Harlow Seeks O. K. of Special Appropriations Here County auditor Albert Harlow . | went to Indianapolis today to ob- ! tain approval of the state board of I I tax commissioners of the special . i appropriations made by the Adams . I County Council in session yesterday. The council appropriated the funds requested .Some of the money appropriated consisted merely of the transfer of balance from one fund to another and to clear balI ances on the auditor’s books. ! The request for several special [ appropriations was made, but three of the appropriations were reduced. The request for $450 for a special court reporter in connection with the Wabash River dredging ease was reduced to $300; the request for an assistant prosecuting attor- . ney was cut from SSOO to $200; the request for SSOO for a pauper attorney was reduced to S2OO. Other appropriations and transfers of balances included, Smith bridge bonds. $515; county assessor’s office expense, S6O: Irene Byron Sanatorium, two additional ! beds for balance of year. $600; auditor's office transfer, $135: county inti ntary transfer, $700; county (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 Reinking Funeral Sunday i Funeral services for Mrs. Martin ! Reinking, xvho died at her home, 10 miles northwest of this city, Wednesday afternoon will be held at 2 o'clock (Sun Time) Sunday afternoon at the home and at 2; 30 o’clock at the Friedheim Lutheran i church. Rev. (’. B. Preuss will officiate and both English and German , services wil be held. Burial wil be in the church cemetery. , The body will remain at the , Zwick home until late Friday afternoon when it will be removed to the home. The deceased and her husband, Martin Reinking, celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary, September 19, 1930.

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TIME JUST FITS! _ While there may be nothing but. confusion about standard | and daylight saving time, it is j I | ’ working out nicely just now in [ II in the Adams circuit court where Judge Erwin and Judge I ! Kister are doing business sim- ! | ultaneouly. The former opens | court at nine o’clock daylight i saving and Judge Kister goes on the bench at nine o’clock ■ standard. This gives Judge i Erwin an hour in which to dispose of regular matters that [ ' j may come up and for a week ! or so. until the term gets farthj er along, will probably be suf- j ficient. Later it is expected the ! ' Wabash river case will be heard at the library auditorium. Ip o | OLD CASES TO ■ BE DISMISSED — Judge Erwin Sets 34 Cases For November 2; All Old Ones Judge Dore B. Erwin has decided to clear the docket of the Adams [ circuit court and this morning set for trial on November 2, thirty-four ’ causes which have been pending from five to thirteen years, upon I i which date unless some action is ■ taken towards actual trial, same will be dismissed and taken from > the pages. The judge said he would j > take further similar steps next term , and continue until the inactive matters are disposed of. The thirty-four cases which will be dismissed November 2nd unless ■ some signs of life are displayed f are: M. Kirsch vs. Old Adams County • Bank. Account. ; Delphi Strawboard Company vs. Meridian Life Insurance Co. Com- - plaint on policy. i Resin vs. Martz. Foreclose lien. Starr Piano Company vs. Scheri er. On check. Ray vs. Haugk. Account. Johnson vs. Geneva Grain Co. For conversion. Schugg vs. Smitley. Notes. Pennsylvania Railroad Co. (G. R. and Ft. Wayne) vs. Berne. Injunc- | tion. Van Camp vs. Wittwer. Account. Ayres vs. Ayres. Note. Studabaker vs. Hecke. Damages. (Two causes). • First National Bank vs. Broadbeck. Note. Shanahan vs. Haugk. Injunction. Smith vs. Grim. Foreclose nte- ■ chanics’ lien. Bernard Mfg. Co. vs. Ashbaugh. ' Note. Industrial Loan & Investment Co. ; vs. Anker et al. Notes. Buckeye Traction Ditcher Co., vs. CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO! OCEAN FLIERS STILL MISSING No Word From Pacific Aviators After GO Hours Absence Seattle, Wash., Sept. 10. —(U.R) Fear that the attempt of Don Moyle and Cecil A. Allen to fly from Tokio to Seattle in a second hand monoplane had ended in the stormy Pacific sent coast guard cutters plowing the northern seas tc/.ay. More than 60 hours had elapsed since the young fliers took off from Sabishiro Beach. Japan, last Monday. They had gasoline enough to keep aloft only 49 hours. Only two explanations were deemed possible. Either the City of Tacoma II had been forced down on one of the rockly Aleutian Islands stretching like an arm into the ocean, or on the Alaskan mainland, or they had plunged to watery graves. Canadian provincial police had (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Ford Funeral Friday Funeral services for Charles Ford, Decatur man who died at his home on Bush street at noon Wednesday will be held Friday after- • noon at 2 o’clock at the home and at 2:30 o’clock at United Brethren church with Rev. R. E. Vance officiating. Burial will J> e * n K le Decatur Cemetery.

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MANY COUNTY COUNCILS CUT SUBSTANTIALLY Taxpayers Voice Approval Here Following Council’s Action REMONSTRANCE NOT EXPECTED County councils in a number of Northern Indiana j counties wielded the pruning knife on the budgets and cut | big amounts from the estimates. reducing appropria- ! lions, salaries of deputies and assistants and followed the i general trend to curb public I expenses and lower taxes. In Adams county the council I fixed the general fund levy at 23 j cents and tU<- highway repair fund at 15 cents on the hundred dollars. ' The general fund levy is a reducI tion of 11 cents and the highway levy is a reduction of 10 cents. The salaries of the county attendance officer, porbation officer, court reporter, court house custodian and deputies in the auditor's, clerk's, surveyor's and school superintendent’s offices were reduced. Action in Other Counties In Wells county the general tax levy was reduced to 44 cents and i the road repair levy to 19 cents on I the hundred dollars. This is a reduction of 7 cents in the two levies. The Wells county council also refused to appropriate $2,600 for the county agent’s office. In Noble county the general fund levy was reduced from 28 cents to 24 cents, and the highway repair levy was" reduced from 24 cents to 15 cents. The council also reduced salaries of deputies and county employes where statute does not fix the salary. Final action had not been taken by the county council in DeKalb county up to last evening; However. reducing of appropriations and estimates have been agreed upon in that county. In Kosciusko county reductions have been made in the requests (CONTINUED UN PAGE EIGHT I o Child Reveals Story Stamford, Coun.. Sept 10- (U.R) — A halting, disconnected story of her father and mother having been attacked aboard their cabin cruiser Penguin in Long Island sound was told by five year-old Barbara Collings, when she was found alone today aboard the floating yacht. She said two men. one of them armed with a revolver, had boarded the cruiser and put her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Collings overboard. o Vincennes U. To Open Vincennes, Sept. 10. (U.R) Vincennes University, threatened with a financial crisis which would prevent it from opening for the fall term, today was assured of $8,550 from a special county levy. The school had asked the county for an appropriation of SII,OOO, equivalent to a 2-cent levy. The coupty council agreed to a 1.5 cent levy. Officials of the university said the $8,550 would be sufficient to operate on a curtailed program. PER CAPITA IN STATE HIGHER Operating E x p e n s e Is $9.51 Per Person In State Government Indianapolis. Sept. 10. (U.R)- -Operation and maintenance of the genleral departments of the Indiana state government cost $30,813,946, equivalent to $9.51 for each person, in 1930, it was revealed in a census report received here today from Washington, D. C. In 1929 the per capital cost was $9.18 and in 1917, $4.28. The interest on debt in 1930 was $125,016, and expenditures for perlmanent improvement $20,870,0885. Os the governmental costs. $25,660,197 was for highway work. The state's revenue last year was (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)